Re: [Caml-list] OCaml editor running tests or other tasks in background?

[Jeremie Salvucci <jeremie.salvucci@free.fr>]

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You also have OcaIDE available as an Eclipse plugin 
(http://www.algo-prog.info/ocaide/).

On 10/02/2013 07:06 PM, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> I think the most advanced project regarding IDE integration nowadays 
> is Merlin ( https://github.com/def-lkb/merlin ), which gives direct 
> feedback on syntax and typing errors. It doesn't have any knowledge of 
> unit tests or coverage checking, but it would probably be the right 
> tool to start with to integrate such a feature.
>
> Note that there has been a bit of back-and-forth on the instant 
> feedback feature. Previous iterations were deemed a bit too visually 
> invasive, and some people don't like to risk being interrupted by 
> their IDE while they think about their code. I think it's always 
> better to have the feature available, but there is clearly some tuning 
> to have, and potential for overdoing it.
>
> The other project that jumps to mind is the Why3 IDE ( 
> http://why3.lri.fr/ ). It seems they're not hype enough to have video 
> stuff available, but from what I remember the GUI does a pretty good 
> job of giving feedback on how external provers run, and pieces of code 
> that were previously verified and aren't anymore.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:00 PM, David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org 
> <mailto:dmentre@linux-france.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     Somebody has recently shown me the NCrunch (http://www.ncrunch.net/)
>     plug-in running under Microsoft Visual Studio and I was quite
>     impressed by it. This plug-in allows to define and run a test suite on
>     a C# program. The very nice thing about NCrunch is that the tests are
>     run in the background, without any user intervention (without even the
>     need to save files!). A set of coloured icons are displayed next to
>     each test to see if the test succeeded or not and some additional
>     pop-ups or right-clicks bring additional information. This approach
>     brings a very fluent way to develop some code and test it
>     simultaneously.
>
>     In the same spirit, I have seen the Dafny development environment for
>     proved programs
>     (https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dafny/), still on
>     Visual Studio, where this time Verification Conditions and proofs of
>     the program being edited are generated and run in the background, with
>     coloured icons displaying the result. Once again, no need for the user
>     to click on icons or do any specific action.
>
>     So my question: are there similar OCaml editors available or being
>     worked on that would allow running tasks in the background and
>     displaying result in the editor without user intervention?
>
>     There is apparently a lot of development in the OCaml development
>     environment these days so somebody might already work on something
>     similar.
>
>     By "OCaml editor", I am voluntarily ambiguous: I am interested in both
>     editor to program in OCaml and editor programmed in OCaml (or
>     interfaced with OCaml) and which could be used for other languages.
>
>     Best regards,
>     david
>
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